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RE: Considering Home-School: Why It Was The Right Choice for Us!
What a wonderful piece to read. I commend you. My kids are my world and if I could have done homeschool I would have. I felt strongly about my kinds learning in a different language, actually their father's native language. So I put them into a french school so they could communicate with their grandparents. I would continue the teaching after school and on weekends so that I picked up the slack that the school was lacking. Really, your school has Ipad to teach? That is seriously unfortunate, as kids I find have way too much screen time as it is in the off hours of school. I put all my kids in music lessons, and one in each a sport to occupy the time outside of school. Thanks for sharing.
I think French immersion is a great idea, and your children will benefit greatly from being bilingual! Yep, iPads in every child's hands, classrooms full of zombies. It was touted as an amazing benefit for the students. In the US, the school system is not guided by what's actually the best for children, but what's best for profits. Mainly the standardized testing companies, who also publish college textbooks (Pearson etc). Oh and all the educational software that is forced upon districts... it's a massive, lucrative industry!
Sad that our kids have to be the victims of this. No actually immersion programs across the board and languages has been clearly determined that it has a negative effect on the developing mind. It get too confused. In the early years kids need all and a little but not 50/50, as when they grow they will have never really mastered either language and get frustrated and have failing negative affects in their High School years. My father was a teacher for 35 years and have pilot project of french immersion in the early years. Thanks